ob⋅du⋅rate

- adj.
1. unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
2. stubbornly resistant to moral influence.

im⋅pen⋅i⋅tent

- adj.
1. not feeling regret about one's sin or sins.

pre⋅tend

- verb
1. to cause or attempt to cause what is not so to seem so.
2. to appear falsely, as to deceive; feign.
3. to make believe.
4. to presume; venture.
5. to allege or profess, esp. insincerely or falsely.
6. to lay claim to.
7. to make pretensions.
8. to aspire, as a suitor or candidate.
- adj.
9. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit.

in⋅im⋅i⋅ta⋅ble

- adj.
1. incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.

in⋅dis⋅pen⋅sa⋅ble

- adj.
1. absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite.
2. incapable of being disregarded or neglected.

nec⋅es⋅sar⋅y

- adj.
1. being essential, indispensable, or requisite.
2. happening or existing by necessity.
3. acting or proceeding from compulsion or necessity; not free; involuntary.
4. a. such that a denial of it involves a self-contradiction.
b. such that its conclusion cannot be false if its supporting premises are true.
c. such that it must exist if a given event is to occur or a given thing is to exist.

ne⋅ces⋅si⋅ty

- noun
1. something necessary or indispensable.
2. the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability.
3. an imperative requirement or need for something.
4. the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable.
5. an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something.
6. a state of being in financial need; poverty.
7. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.

in⋅ev⋅i⋅ta⋅ble

- adj.
1. unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary.
2. sure to occur, happen, or come; unalterable.
- noun
3. that which is unavoidable.

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
- Robert Smithson

"The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another."
- Jasper Johns

"All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name."
- André Breton

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."
- Salvador Dalí

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
- Edgar Allan Poe

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."
- Gustave Courbet

crit⋅i⋅cal

- adj.
1. inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
2. involving skillful judgment as to truth, merit, etc.; judicial.
3. providing textual variants, proposed emendations, etc.
4. pertaining to or of the nature of a crisis.
5. of decisive importance with respect to the outcome; crucial.
6. of essential importance; indispensable.
7. having unstable and abnormal vital signs and other unfavorable indicators.
8. a. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity at which one or more properties of a substance or system undergo a change.
b. having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction.

cyn⋅ic

- noun
1. a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
2. one of a sect of philosophers, who advocate the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity.
3. a person who shows or expresses a bitter or sneering attitude.
- adj.
4. resembling the actions of a snarling dog.

cyn⋅i⋅cal

- adj.
1. distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2. showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, esp. by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3. bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.

"Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end."
- Jack Kerouac

what

- pronoun
1. used interrogatively as a request for specific information; to inquire about the character, occupation, etc., of a person or the origin, identity, etc., of something.
2. whatever; anything that.
3. the kind of thing or person that.
4. as much as; as many as.
5. the thing or fact that.
6. that; which; who.
- noun
7. the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics.

ex⋅tro⋅vert

- noun
1. an outgoing, gregarious person.
2. a person concerned primarily with the physical and social environment.
- verb
3. to direct the mind, one's interest, etc. outward or to things outside the self.

in⋅tro⋅vert

- noun
1. a shy person.
2. a person concerned primarily with his or her own thoughts and feelings.
- verb
3. to turn inward.
4. to direct the mind, one's interest, etc. partly to things within the self.

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
- Mark Twain

rec⋅luse

- noun
1. a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
2. a religious voluntary immured in a cave, hut, or the like, or one remaining within a cell for life.
- adj.
3. shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons.
4. characterized by seclusion; solitary.

im⋅mure

- verb
1. to enclose within walls.
2. to shut in; seclude or confine.
3. to imprison.
4. to build into or entomb in a wall.
5. to surround with walls; fortify.

ex⋅trav⋅a⋅gant

- adj.
1. spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful.
2. excessively high.
3. exceeding the bounds of reason, as actions, demands, opinions, or passions.
4. going beyond what is deserved or justifiable.
5. wandering beyond bounds.

ex⋅ces⋅sive

- adj.
1. going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree.

in⋅dulge

- verb
1. to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will.
2. to yield to, satisfy, or gratify desires, feelings, etc.
3. to yield to the wishes or whims of; be lenient or permissive with.

el⋅e⋅gy

- noun
1. a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
2. a poem written in elegiac meter.
3. a sad or mournful musical composition.

eu⋅lo⋅gy

- noun
1. a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person.
2. high praise or commendation.

"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein

"The essence of a man is found in his faults."
- Francis Picabia

MMORPG

- noun
1. Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.
2. a genre of computer game in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.

LARP

1. Live-Action Role-Playing.

"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology."
- Theodor Adorno

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco